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(15 April)   Singapore's property market has entered a standoff between bargain-seeking buyers and developers sticking to their pricing guns, with March's new home sales dropping 83 percent from a year earlier. "Buyers think they can have their cake and eat it," said Alan Cheong, senior director for Singapore at Savills Research.... 

(14 April)   Singapore’s dollar has emerged as Asia’s most-vulnerable currency to prospects of higher U.S. interest rates, driving a gauge measuring the relationship to a record high. The CHART OF THE DAY tracks the Singapore dollar and the benchmark U.S. 10-year yield since April 1995. The lower panel shows the 240-day... 

Civil society organisations and activists release joint statement on proposed Prevention of Human Trafficking Bill Civil society organisations AWARE, HOME, Project X and Workfair, as well as activists Vincent Law and Timothy Cheong (all together, the “signatories”), have written a joint open letter addressed to MP Mr Christopher...